Category Archives: coronavirus

Year three of the pandemic: one million plus dead in America and we’re moving on

Posted on May 15, 2022 by Bryan Alexander

997,083. That’s the number of Americans killed by COVID-19 so far, according to the CDC. We think of it as a million, if we think of it at all. That’s not just because large statistics are often hard to parse, … Continue reading →

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How many COVID casualties will Americans accept in order to reopen society? Poll results

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Bryan Alexander

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is raging and may be a world-historical event. It has certainly become the center of media and policy attention in many nations.  I’ve posted about it and have been researching it constantly. For this post … Continue reading →

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How many COVID casualties will Americans accept in order to reopen society? A poll

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Bryan Alexander

How much will America accept to live with the pandemic? I have a poll, but let me explain it first. Right now the COVID-19 virus seems to be ebbing in many nations.  Total infections and deaths since 2020 keep growing … Continue reading →

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Omicron and higher education: a tale of two nations in January 2022

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Bryan Alexander

In December the Omicron COVID-19 strain was rapidly rising. Colleges and universities had to plan for the upcoming month. How should they react? In that same December I and some friends started tracking those plans with an eye towards those … Continue reading →

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Campuses moving classes online this month: updated data and map

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Bryan Alexander

A bunch of us have been tracking how some colleges and universities have moved or planned to move classes online this month, in response to the new pandemic developments.  We started nearly three weeks ago and the dataset has been … Continue reading →

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This blog in the year 2021

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Bryan Alexander

It’s customary at year’s end to look back at one’s career or life over that period.  2021 was a wild year.  It came right after an epic 2020.  2022 also looks challenging… I don’t really have the time this week … Continue reading →

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How will colleges and universities plan for January? A crowdsourced tracking project

Posted on December 20, 2021 by Bryan Alexander

How will higher education respond to the Omicron wave next month? As I’ve said before, it’s difficult to forecast what COVID will do, given the variability of the virus itself as well as how humans respond to its action.  What … Continue reading →

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A pandemic milestone and what might come next

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Bryan Alexander

Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik! (The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!) -Kurt Tucholsky, 1925 It looks like COVID-19 has now … Continue reading →

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Looking ahead to COVID-19’s third year: what it may mean for higher education

Posted on December 11, 2021 by Bryan Alexander

As I was finishing this post two pandemic stories unrelated to higher education hit my various feeds about the same time.  One was from a finance reporter, who proclaimed his delight in going to many social gatherings, from indoor restaurants … Continue reading →

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Looking ahead to COVID-19’s third year

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Bryan Alexander

What might we expect from the COVID-19 pandemic’s third year? Yes, that’s where we are now in this December 2021, running out of the virus’ second year while all indicators are blinking GO! for a third.  Technically, the third COVID … Continue reading →

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